Core Programs and Partners

Jobs, Job Training, and Reintegration:

Following rescue and aftercare, the final step is to help survivors reintegrate into society. For older teens and adults, we offer job training, fairly paid employment, and non-formal education. . Poverty and lack of economic opportunity is consistently cited as a primary cause of slavery and trafficking in almost every published research study (UN, UNODC, ILO, ECPAT, CARE, Free The Slaves). We believe that addressing poverty and lack of skills and opportunity among survivors and high risk groups is critical to ending slavery.

We witness every day the transformation in survivors’ identity and behavior that result from self-sufficiency. At first survivors are timid and silent, not daring to look anyone in the eye. But after a few months, they are laughing, speaking out, and problem solving, challenging us to match their energy and commitment.

When possible, we assist survivors in finding and paying for housing or paying for a wedding. We provide for the medical and emergency needs of partners and survivors, including clean water and building restoration

Education:

We sponsor survivors and children born into brothels for school, including 50 children born into brothel districts in Calcutta, 50 children who were formerly enslaved in quarries in Northern India, and more child and teen survivors at two shelters in Nepal.  In 2009, we built a preschool for our NGO partner Sanlaap.  We also provide nonformal education - literacy, numeracy, English and Computers training - to survivors in many of our job programs.

Business Development

We provide business development help to eight core partner agencies,including on-site visits and phone and email mentorship, to help them build their own sustainable businesses and to create products which we can successfully sell in the US market.

Partner Agencies and Program Sites: 

We work with partner shelters in Nepal, India, Cambodia, Thailand,Bangladesh, Ukraine, Uganda and the USA, that rescue, shelter and care for the emotional and physical needs of rescued victims of slavery. We also operate our own production center for survivors from 4 shelter partners in India - the Destiny Center - and will soon be opening Destiny II - a renewable energy/dairy and handicrafts program for survivors in Mumbai.